What is missing from Minkowski's "Raum und Zeit" lecture

Annalen der Physik (Leipzig)

Volumn 17, Issue 9-10, 2008, Pages 619-630

  Damour, Thibault ^a  

^a INSTITUT DES HAUTES ÉTUDES SCIENTIFIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

History of science; Philosophy of science; Special relativity

Indexed keywords

PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS;

HISTORY OF SCIENCE; PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE; POINCARE; SPECIAL RELATIVITY;

HELIUM;

EID: 54949133389     PISSN: 00033804     EISSN: 15213889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/andp.200810315     Document Type: Article

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